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moobu2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 09:39 AM
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Israel Missile Strike Kills 10 Palestinians, Injures 30
Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip have left at least 10 Palestinians dead and more than 30 others wounded. Israel's defense minister says Israel will no longer show restraint against militants in Gaza.

Witnesses in Gaza City say a yellow van traveling on a busy highway in northern Gaza was struck about midday by Israeli fire.

Captain Noa Meir, a spokeswoman for the Israeli Defense Forces, says the operation was targeted at Islamic Jihad militants who were planning on launching Katyusha rockets against targets in Israel.

"This is actually the third incident in the past two months of terrorists launching the more advanced Katyusha rocket," Meir said. "This rocket has a range of 20 kilometers and has proved deadly in the past."


http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-06-13-voa21.cfm
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Poll_Blind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 10:13 AM
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1. The world watches Israel. n/t
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DELUSIONAL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 10:33 AM
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2. The poverty of unilateralism
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,1796031,00.html

Unilateralism may indeed work for a while, and any withdrawal is better than none, but the mayhem on the Israel-Gaza border shows why it cannot provide a long-term solution. Israel, it is true, no longer directly rules over a million Palestinians. But it controls the entry and exit points to what is in effect a vast and hopeless prison, and still rules the West Bank, the rest of what remains of Palestine. So it is hardly surprising that desperate men with guns and home-made rockets use them against an enemy armed with F-16s, Apache helicopters and long-range artillery - 6,000 shells fired between last September's final Israeli pullback and Friday's beach carnage - even if their unequal struggle rebounds, as it invariably does, on their own long-suffering people.
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